The Way to Amalthea
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The Way to Amalthea (Russian: Путь на Альматею, Put' na Amal'teyu) also known as Destination: Amalthea is an early science fiction short story by Boris and Arkady Strugatsky written in 1959.
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A cargo spaceship, propelled by a photon engine with a large reflective mirror ("sail"), visits the Jupiter system to deliver a cargo to a manned science station on Amalthea. Damaged by meteorites, the spaceship falls into Jupiter, but survives the pressure and floats in the dense atmosphere; the crew manage to work around the damaged mirror and start the main engine to escape Jupiter and finally reach Amalthea.
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| Novels: | Noon: 22nd Century | Escape Attempt | Far Rainbow | Hard to Be a God | Disquiet | Prisoners of Power | Space Mowgli | The Kid from Hell | Beetle in the Anthill | The Time Wanderers |
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| Related works: | The Land of Crimson Clouds | The Way to Amalthea | Space Apprentice |
| Planets: | Ark | Arkanar | Earth | Rainbow | Saraksh | Saula | List of minor planets |
| Races: | Ark Megaforms | Headies | Humans | Leoniders | Ludens | Tagorians | Wanderers |
| Personalities: | Lev Abalkin | Leonid Gorbovsky | Maxim Kammerer | Gennady Komov | Rudolf Sikorski | List of minor personalities |
| Miscellaneous: | XXII century timeline | Progressors | Stepchildren Case |
